Penalties for success: reactions to women who succeed at male gender-typed tasks.

By M. Heilman, A. Wallen, D. Fuchs, Melinda M. Tamkins. 2004

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Subfields: Gender Studies, Sociology and Political Science, Social Sciences & Humanities

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Language (Technology) is Power: A Critical Survey of “Bias” in NLP (2020, background): “, 2019; Tan and Celis, 2019), in which women who succeed at stereotypically male tasks are perceived to be less likable than similarly successful men (Heilman et al., 2004).”
On Measuring Social Biases in Sentence Encoders (2019, methodology): “…on bias in NLP, we also introduce tests of two biases that are less amenable to word-level representation: the angry black woman stereotype (Collins, 2004; Madison, 2009; Harris-Perry, 2011; hooks, 2015; Gillespie, 2016) and a double bind on women in professional settings (Heilman et al., 2004).”
Social Dominance Orientation, Right-Wing Authoritarianism, Sexism, and Prejudice Toward Women in the Workforce (2008, background): “Additionally, in two samples of undergraduate respondents, Heilman et al. (2004) found that women who were professionally successful were liked less and perceived as more interpersonally hostile than equally successful men.”
Gender and Leadership (2017, background): “Women who use a “feminine” communication style may be considered less competent than men in leadership roles [35, 101] and can be rated less favorably when competing for leadership positions [28, 102].”
Self-reliance: A Gender Perspective on its Relationship to Communality and Leadership Evaluations (2017, positive): “Perceivedcommunalitywasmeasuredwithsixitemsthat were adapted fromprevious research (a5 .89) (Heilman et al., 2004; Phelan, Moss-Racusin, & Rudman, 2008).”
Science faculty’s subtle gender biases favor male students (2012, methodology): “Following conventions established in classic experimental studies to create enough ambiguity to leave room for potentially biased responses (20, 23), the student applicants in the present research were described as qualified to succeed in academic science (i.”
Stepmothers are mean and academics are pretentious: What do pretrained language models learn about you? (2021, background): “This includes, for instance, studying speciﬁc phenomena such as the infamous ‘Angry Black Woman’ stereotype and the ‘double bind’ (Heilman et al., 2004) theory (Kir-itchenko and Mohammad, 2018; May et al., 2019; Tan and Celis, 2019), or relating model predictions to gender stereotype lexicons…”
Occupational Sex Composition and the Gendered Availability of Workplace Support (2010, background): “Research shows that both men and women are likely to see women who violate social norms in the workplace as not likeable—and that coworkers will withhold workplace support due to this dislike (Heilman et al. 2004; Kanter 1977; Pierce 1995; Roth 2006).”